Bible Verses About Death and Dying

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.